Mode-2 social science knowledge production?<BR> The case of Danish sociology between institutional crisis and new welfare stabilizations

Moving towards Mode 2? Evidence-based policy-making and the changing conditions for educational research in Germany

“…Most of the involved researchers believe that all of these types are successfully being provided to policy-makers and practitioners (A II, III, IV, VII, VIII). Moreover, contrary to Kropp and Blok's (2011) account of Danish sociology, change was discontinuous, even disruptive, following revelatory international large-scale assessments and a heightened interest in 'high-quality' ER among policy-makers and the wider public. Large sections of preexisting research infrastructure have been converted to a Mode 2 mission and additional research infrastructure established is clearly compatible with Mode 2, namely as a scientific service sector.…”

“…Importantly, in identifying the causes for such institutional change, it would be shortsighted to restrict the focus to endogenous, national and functionalist explanations, as do Kropp and Blok (2011) and Gibbons and Nowotny (2001). Our case illustrates how international stimuli, in the guise of large-scale assessments, evidence-based policy-making experiments, and a globe-spanning quantitative research paradigm in general trigger cognitive and organizational changes in a national setting (Zapp and Powell 2016).…”

“…With this preliminary evidence, there is much reason to believe that Mode 2 conditions have the potential to alter the production of knowledge in social scientific fields as new social, political and economic demands grow (Kropp and Blok 2011). We argue that German ER constitutes an exemplary case to illustrate such changing conditions and consider the NPK hypothesis particularly apt to capture it, as it unites several analytical dimensions (e.g.…”

“…Another Mode 2 application to the social sciences is Kropp and Blok's (2011) account of the long-term changes within Danish sociology, charting a growing resemblance with the Mode 2 form of knowledge production. They find substantial evidence for a Mode 2 shift of Danish sociology in most of the conceptual dimensions, except increasing transdisciplinarity.…”

No Crisis but Methodological Separatism: A Comparative Study of Finnish and Danish Publication Trends between 1990 and 2009

“…The department was reopened in 1990, and ever since that time sociological research in Denmark has, in general, become more applied and policy oriented (Kropp and Blok, 2011 …”